PARIS UNDERGROUND PATCH Information Sheet

USA Girl Scouts Overseas
PARIS, FRANCE
PARIS UNDERGROUND PATCH
Information Sheet
You may have already earned the Paris Worlds to Explore Patch either by visiting Paris or
by fulfilling the requirements by Internet. Now you can earn another patch by exploring
the Paris underground. The Michelin Guide, a map of Paris, a metro map and various
websites will be very helpful to you as you plan your visit.
Visit or learn about as many sites as you can and then answer the questionnaires. You
should keep a scrapbook of tickets, photos or sketches of anything you have visited
during your research. And if you discover any other underground sites in Paris or the
close suburbs, please give that information to your leader so that she can send it to the
Patch coordinator.
Minimum time: 2-4 days
Requirements All Girl Scouts should visit or learn about at least 1 underground site
from each section indicated on the information sheet and complete the two Metro
quizzes. For the Paris Underground quiz: Girl Scouts should answer a certain number of
questions according to program level: Daisies: 5 questions, Brownies: 10 questions,
Juniors: 15 questions, Cadettes: 20 questions, Seniors and Ambassadors: 25 questions.
Good luck!
1. CRYPTS and CATACOMBS
a. Maison d’Ourscamp
44-46 rue François Miron, 75004 Paris, Metro: St Paul
http://www.paris-historique.org/
b. Archeological Crypt of the parvis of Notre Dame Cathedral
Place de Parvis Notre Dame, Ile de La Cité, 75004 Paris, Metro: Cité
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paris/hist/nd-crypt.html
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c. The Louvre (medieval Louvre)
Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, Metro: Palais Royal-Musée de Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en (search for medieval Louvre)
d. Basilica Saint Denis
93000 Saint Denis, Metro: Basilique de Saint-Denis
www.monum.fr and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Denis_Basilica
e. Panthéon
Place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris, Metro: Maubert-Mutualité et Cardinal-Lemoine RER B :
Luxembourg
www.monum.fr
http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/pantheon.htm
f.
Catacombes
1 place Denfert-Rocherau, 75014 Paris, Metro: Denfert-Rochereau, lines 4, 6 and RER B
http://www.catacombes-de-paris.fr/english.htm
g. Mémorial de la Déportation
Square de l’Ile de France, Ile de la Cité, 75004, Paris, Metro: Cité
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_de_la_Deportation
2. TRANSPORTATION
a. The Paris underground system of the Metro and the RER
http://www.ratp.fr/
http://www.ratp.info/touristes/index.php?langue=en
http://www.paris.org/Metro/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_of_the_Paris_M%C3%A9tro
http://metrorama.free.fr
b. Maison de la RATP (in the lobby one can see restored metro wagons)
189 rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris, Metro: line 14, Gare de Lyon
c. The Canal Saint Martin
Canauxrama
13 quai de la Loire, 75019 Paris (consult their website for boarding points)
http://www.canauxrama.com/e_index.html
Paris-Canal
19-21 quai de la Loire, 75019 Paris (consult their website for boarding points)
http://www.pariscanal.com/The-Seine-and-the-Canal-Saint
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3. WATER (historic and present sites for fresh water and waste water)
a. Hôtel de Cluny
6 place Paul-Painlevé, Metro: Cluny-La Sorbonne
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/homes/home_id20392_u1l2.htm
b. Fontaine des Innocents
Square des Innocents, 75001 Paris, Metro: Châtelet ou Les Halles, also RER A and B
http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/fontainedesinnocents.htm
c. La Maison du Fontainier (open for monthly visits)
42, ave. de l’Observatoire, 75014, 01 48 87 74 31, RER B: Port Royal
http://www.paris-historique.org/maison.php (French)
d. Artesian Well
Square Lamartine, 193 avenue Victor-Hugo, 75016 Paris, Metro: Rue de la Pompe
e. Wallace Fountains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_fountains
f. Reservoirs of water for modern Paris
For a virtual tour, go to these websites:
http://www.paris-promenades.com/en/site_text/II-ii.htm
http://catacombes.web.free.fr/Videos/ReservoirMontsouris.wmv
g. Pavillon de L’Eau (educational exhibits for families)
77, avenue de Versailles, 75016 Paris, Metro: Mirabeau or RER C Javel
www.pavillondeleau.fr
h. Eau de Paris (website to visit)
9, rue Victor Schoelcher, 75675 Paris 14
www.eaudeparis.fr
i. Musée des égouts (sewer museum)
Entrance opposite 93 Quai d’Orsay, 75007 Paris, Metro : Alma-Marceau or RER C Pont
d’Alma
http://europeforvisitors.com/paris/articles/paris-sewers-museum.htm
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4. FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT AND SHOPPING
a. Carrousel du Louvre
Under the Louvre museum, Metro: Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre
http://goparis.about.com/od/shopping/p/CarrouselLouvre.htm
b. Forum des Halles
Metro: Châtelet-Les Halles, also RER A and B
http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/forumdeshalles.htm
http://www2.forumdesimages.fr/ (re-opened in December 2008)
c. Musée du vin
5-7 square Charles-Dickens, 5 rue des Eaux, 75016 Paris, Metro: Passy
www.museeduvinparis.com
d. Alléosse
To buy cheese, go to their shop; (visits are no longer possible due to sanitary regulations) :
La Fromagerie, 13, rue Poncelet, 75017 Paris, 01 46 22 50 45, Metro : Ternes
5. MISCELLANEOUS
a. Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Quai François-Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13, Metro: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand,
line 14 or RER C
www.bnf.fr
http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/bibliothequenationale.htm
b. Parc du Buttes Chaumont
Metro: Buttes Chaumont or Botzaris
http://www.v1.paris.fr/en/Visiting/gardens/parc_buttes_chaumont.asp
c. Piscine des Halles
Suzanne Berlioux Sports Center, 10 place de la Rotonde, Level -3, Forum des Halles
Metro: Châtelet-Les Halles, also RER A and B
http://www.carilis.fr/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=13&Ite
mid=27
PARIS UNDERGROUND INFORMATION SHEET
USAGSO-PARIS is a registered nonprofit making organization. (Reg. 434100183768) 34 avenue de New York 75116 Paris, France www.girlscoutsinparis.com. Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
USA Girl Scouts Overseas
PARIS, FRANCE
6. JUST FOR FUN
Try to watch some of the following films or listen to the suggested songs.
Suggested films:
*Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain : Canal St Martin and several Metro stations
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney : catacombes /la cour des miracles
*Phantom of the Opera : underground lake under the Opera
*Les Misérables : les égouts (sewers)
*Zazie dans le métro : the metro
*Les Gaspards (The Down in the Hole Gang) : underground Paris & catacombs
*Hôtel du Nord : canal St Martin
Songs :
*Les Miz, the musical
*Notre Dame de Paris, the musical
*Serge Gainsbourg : Le poinçonneur des Lilas (métro)
*Charles Trenet : Y’a d’la joie (Paris)
*Edith Piaf : Le Métro de Paris
The Paris Underground Patch is a Silver Award project
by Sophie, Hélène, and Jenna, SGS 14
USA Girl Scouts Overseas-Paris
2009
PARIS UNDERGROUND INFORMATION SHEET
USAGSO-PARIS is a registered nonprofit making organization. (Reg. 434100183768) 34 avenue de New York 75116 Paris, France www.girlscoutsinparis.com. Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.